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Testimony of Eliahu Alter Likvornik, born in Balaceana, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Balaceana, Suceava, Transnistria, Mogilev Podolski, Murafa and other places

Testimony
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Testimony of Eliahu Alter Likvornik, born in Balaceana, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Balaceana, Suceava, Transnistria, Mogilev Podolski, Murafa and other places His childhood in Balaceana. Deportation to Suceava, 1941; life [in Suceava] including residence in the synagogue; transfer to Transnistria; life in Transnistria including the confiscation of their belongings; transfer to Mogilev Podolski via Atachi; life in Mogilev Podolski including overcrowding, hunger, stealing of food by children and a typhus epidemic; death of his parents from typhus, 1942; death of two siblings from typhus, 1942; placed in an orphanage along with his younger brother; move to the home of his aunts in Murafa; life in Murafa including hunger; release from Transnistria with help from the JDC, late 1943. Move back to Romania; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944; life in Eretz Israel; finds the graves of his family members in the cemetery in Mogilev Podolski; brings the remains of his relatives to Israel for burial.
item Id
9081996
First Name
Alter
Eliahu
Last Name
Likvornik
Date of Birth
01/02/1935
Place of Birth
Balaceana, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
09/06/2010
Date of Creation - latest
09/06/2010
Name of Submitter
ליקוורניק אליהו אלתר
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection